Encana: Creepy, manipulative PR with icing on top

Gas fraccing giant Encana has scripted a bunch of pre-schoolers to pretend to understand or care about shale gas and hydraulic fracturing. This creepy video shows the depths the oil industry will “drill” to in order to put a happy face on their efforts to spread pollution, above and below ground.

“Creepy” is right … yakking it up with a bunch of kids barely out of nappies and thinking this is where the PR action is. All that’s missing is a shot of EncanaGuy slicing the cake and slurping up the sparkly icing with his new group of acolytes, as further proof of Encana’s good will.

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